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TUCKER TO CONTEST ANDERSON ELECTION - Speculation Rife; Many Express Regret At Action - Carrying out his threat C. Eubank Tucker, well known lawyer, [presiding?] elder of the A. M. E. Zion Church and defeated Democratic candidate for Representative of the 58th Legislative district has filed suit to contest the election of C. W. Anderson Jr., young lawyer, who running on the Republican ticket beat Tucker by a vote of 2,211 to 966. Tucker is charging that Anderson had not lived in the district for the two-year period required by law, that vote buying and intimidation was practiced in the district during the election, and that Republican election officers handled ballots improperly. A Leader representative was told by a leader of the Colored Republican State Campaign organization that Tucker said on election day that he was not bothered about the results, that he would not win and that Anderson would not be seated should he win. He talked as if the white independent candidate who received only a few votes might get the seat, according to the man who was talking to the Leader representative. Mr. Tucker could not be found for a statement as to this before the Leader went to press. While speculation is rife as to the outcome of the Tucker suit, expressions of regret that such action had to be taken the first time a colored man was given an opportunity to sit in the State's law making body are being made by both white and colored citizens. It is not known what Tucker will be able to prove, but it is the general opinion that the Legislature, though Democratic by a large majority will give Anderson a fair deal. Anderson was born in Louisville, reared in Frankfort and trained in the Kentucky State Industrial College. His parents were well known among Democrats and Republicans, white and black.
THATCHER PRESENTS FLAG TO LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL COLLEGE In an inspiring talk, through which rumbled ominously the threat of war, ex-Congressman Maurice Thatcher, seaking to a packed convocation audience at Louisville Municipal College presented the student body with a flag "as evidence of his esteem of those he represented." Declaring that it was unnecessary to recall to his audience the things for which the flag stands he said: "Your group has always made its sacrifice in blood and life for this glorious standard: and before its birth, in like sacrifice, in behalf of the American colonies. From the time of Crispus Attucks at Boston on through our various wars to the World War, men of the colored race have marched and fought under that flag and its predecessor emblems, and always they have measured up to every acid test of courage and soldiership. On no field of courage, in no situation of difficulty and danger, has the colored soldier failed in loyalty, skill and bravery. Bond or free (Continued on page 5)
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT AND N.Y.A. BOARD MEMBER GUESTS OF COUNCIL By George Clement The Louisville Progressive Council an organization formed a few months ago for the purposes of promoting any and all activities which tend to improve the status of the citizens of Louisville, more especially Negroes, held its November luncheon in the service room of the Page's Confectionery building, Wednesday, November 13 at 10 o'clock. The Council had as its special guest I. Willis Cole, Editor of the Leader who was recently appointed one of the nine members of the Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration for Kentucky and Charles W. Anderson Jr., Attorney and Representative elect to the Kentucky State Legislature. Before introducing the guests the president of the Council, Dr. Orville L. Ballard asked J. A. Thomas, executive secretary of the Urban League to make his report on matters dealing with the participation of the Negro in the Social Security and other Federal Government projects. Following the interesting report of Mr. Thomas the Council with a representative number of its members present was served to a special dinner. Dr. Ballard then introduced Mr. Cole, the one colored member of the Advisory Committee which passes on all N. Y. A. applications, prospects, etc. in the State of Kentucky. Mr. Cole expressed his appreciation to the Council, and pledged his cooperation in its program. He said that the appointment from Washington came as a big surprise to him, but that he accepted it because of his deep interest in the youth. He said that at the first meeting of the Advisory Committee he got the impression that the program of the N. Y. A. in Kentucky would be promoted without prejudice, and for the good of all. He said that at all times he would be looking out for the best to be done in carrying out the National Youth Administration program and for that which is fair and just for the group with which he is identified. He invited suggestions fro m members of the Council and asked their cooperation. Then the president introduced Mr. Ander- (Continued on page 4)
HOLD MURDERER WITHOUT BOND John Hemphill, 75, is being held without bond in the County Jail on a charge of first degree murder. Hemphill became enraged and instantly killed Miss Sophia Lancaster [19?] of 843 Seventh Street, November 2, a sister of Miss Edna Lancaster 22, with whom it is said the seventy-five year old man kept company when he called at the home for Edna and was told that she was out, Mrs. Sara Lancaster, mother of the girl was wounded in the arm, and it is said that Hemphill threatened to kill everybody in the house. The coroner's jury said that the murder was one of the most cold blooded in local crime history.
MINISTERS CHALLENGE NEGRO INSTITUTIONS - Educators Ape Third Rate Whites, Says Rev. Henderson; Baptists Pass Watson Resolution - By William H. Ferris This is the age in which the fundamentals of our boasted civilization are being critically analyzed. It is the age of innovations and experiments. And some of the innovations and experiments, in the terse and trenchant words of the late Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, are likely "to turn out badly." One of the experiments is that human society can survive without the buttress of religion, without the background of belief in an omnipresent God. The colleges and universities of the land which a generation [illegible] when Royce, James, Everett and Palmer taught philosophy at Harvard, Ladd at Yale, Borden in Boston University and Howison in the University of California gave the students an idealistic philosophy of life, are now stomm centers of agnosticism and scepticism. Rev. George F. Mosby of Lexington set his lance in rest and charged against the drift towards a crash and sordid materialism, when he addressed the Inter-Fraternal Council at the Y. W. C. A. last month. Last Sunday morning Rev. C. J. Henderson, pastor of Broadway A. M. E. Zion Temple, in a sermon in scintillating brilliancy said, "I will tell you what is the trouble with our race today. It is unfortunate that our first crop of educators left God out. They ape third rate white writers instead of going back to God. Their so-called freedom of thought is in reality intellectual slavery. Instead of being monkeys they should find God for themselves." Baptist Ministers Take Stand But it was reserved for the (Continued on page 5)
LILIENTHAL TO SPEAK HERE ON TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY David E. Lillienthal, director and general counsel of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will speak in the Memorial Auditorium in Louisville on Monday night November 25th, [Mayor?] Miller announces through the Leader. A native of Morton, Illinois, where he was born in 1899, Mr. Lilienthal [attended?] De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, and Harvard Law School, being graduated from the latter in [1923?]. He began his law practice in Chicago in association with Donald R. Richberg, who was at that time general counsel for the Railroad Brotherhoods. In [1926?], Mr. Lilienthal established his own office in Chicago, where he practiced until February, 1931. During this time he was special counsel for the City of Chicago in the famous [base?] phone rate controversy which [ultimately?] resulted in the United States Supreme Court ordering a refund of $20,000,000 overcharge to telephone subscribers. When Philip La Follette, younger brother of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., became governor of Wisconsin in 1931, he invited Mr. Lilienthal to reorganize the then Railroad Commission of that state. Mr. Lilienthal accepted, gave up his Chicago office and moved to Madison. As state public utilities commis- (Continued on page 5)
SELECT NEW SITE FOR SIMMONS The extended session of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists met Tuesday November 12 at Zion Baptist Church of which Rev. Wm. Crawford is pastor. Rev. Wm. H. Ballew presided and Geo. W. Hampton served as secretary. The purpose of the session was to select a new site for Simmons University, Dr. M. B. Lanier, president, and they decided on the Orphan Home site at 18th and Dumnisnil at a cost of $8,500. The convention also went on record as endorsing the program of the moderator which included aid for the Old Folk's Home, and aged colored ministers.
WOMAN WELL KNOWN OVER STATE, DIES IN MT. STERLING Mt. Sterling, Ky., Nov. 21--Mrs. Priscilla Hall, widow of Rev. Moses Hall, after a short illness, passed away here Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8:30 p. m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Burbridge, 74 E. High St. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. M. V. Allen, pastor of Keas Tabernacle C. M. E. Church, assisted by Rev. G. C. Letton, pastor of High St. Christian Church. She leaves six childre, W. E. Hall, contractor, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. J. S. Estill, Kentucky State Industrial College, Frankfort; Mrs. Elizabeth Burbridge, Mt. Sterling; E. T. Hall, J. Wesley Hall, mail carrier and James Wallace Hall, Gibraltar Insurance agent, all of Indianapolis, Indiana. She also leaves a son-in-law T. A. Mason, mail carrier, Louisville; one granddaughter, Mrs. Mae Grubbs Roberts; a great granddaughter, Miss Zoearline Roberts; eight grandsons, Chas. W. and Sylvester Daniel, William, Tharvalo, Thomas A., Jerome, Elijah and Eugene Grubbs, all of Indianapolis and a great grandson, Wilbur Grubbs, Mt. Sterling. Mrs. Hall was reared in the family of the late Honorable Thomas Turner, who had a large family of boys and only one girl, Miss Mary Turner, at the time she went to live with them. Miss Mary E. Turner and her younger sister, Miss Emily Turner, now (Continued on page 8)
LINWOOD DIXON IS FOUND DEAD Linwood Dixon, well known citizen and for many year an employee of [the?] Louisville Post Office was [found?] dead at his home 513 [South 2nd?] Street Monday afternoon. His body was found on the floor of his home by Charles Bushorg, retired letter carrier, a friend who wishing a call on Mr. Dixon looked through the window and saw his body on the floor when no one answered the doorbell. Other persons who live in the home were away. The police called opened the door and found the body on the floor of the hallway. The County coroner said that a cerebral hemorrhage caused the death. The body was given in charge of the J. B. Cooper Funeral Home awaiting a message from two brothers who survive him. Mr. Dixon was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. He for several years was active in the church and social life of the city.
Speculation Rife; Many Express Regret At Action
Educators Ape Third Rate Whites, Says Rev. Henderson; Baptists Pass Watson Resolution
WOMAN WEll KNOWN OVER STATE, DIES IN MT. STERLING

TUCKER TO CONTEST ANDERSON ELECTION - Speculation Rife; Many Express Regret At Action - Carrying out his threat C. Eubank Tucker, well known lawyer, [presiding?] elder of the A. M. E. Zion Church and defeated Democratic candidate for Representative of the 58th Legislative district has filed suit to contest the election of C. W. Anderson Jr., young lawyer, who running on the Republican ticket beat Tucker by a vote of 2,211 to 966. Tucker is charging that Anderson had not lived in the district for the two-year period required by law, that vote buying and intimidation was practiced in the district during the election, and that Republican election officers handled ballots improperly. A Leader representative was told by a leader of the Colored Republican State Campaign organization that Tucker said on election day that he was not bothered about the results, that he would not win and that Anderson would not be seated should he win. He talked as if the white independent candidate who received only a few votes might get the seat, according to the man who was talking to the Leader representative. Mr. Tucker could not be found for a statement as to this before the Leader went to press. While speculation is rife as to the outcome of the Tucker suit, expressions of regret that such action had to be taken the first time a colored man was given an opportunity to sit in the State's law making body are being made by both white and colored citizens. It is not known what Tucker will be able to prove, but it is the general opinion that the Legislature, though Democratic by a large majority will give Anderson a fair deal. Anderson was born in Louisville, reared in Frankfort and trained in the Kentucky State Industrial College. His parents were well known among Democrats and Republicans, white and black.
THATCHER PRESENTS FLAG TO LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL COLLEGE In an inspiring talk, through which rumbled ominously the threat of war, ex-Congressman Maurice Thatcher, seaking to a packed convocation audience at Louisville Municipal College presented the student body with a flag "as evidence of his esteem of those he represented." Declaring that it was unnecessary to recall to his audience the things for which the flag stands he said: "Your group has always made its sacrifice in blood and life for this glorious standard: and before its birth, in like sacrifice, in behalf of the American colonies. From the time of Crispus Attucks at Boston on through our various wars to the World War, men of the colored race have marched and fought under that flag and its predecessor emblems, and always they have measured up to every acid test of courage and soldiership. On no field of courage, in no situation of difficulty and danger, has the colored soldier failed in loyalty, skill and bravery. Bond or free (Continued on page 5)
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT AND N.Y.A. BOARD MEMBER GUESTS OF COUNCIL By George Clement The Louisville Progressive Council an organization formed a few months ago for the purposes of promoting any and all activities which tend to improve the status of the citizens of Louisville, more especially Negroes, held its November luncheon in the service room of the Page's Confectionery building, Wednesday, November 13 at 10 o'clock. The Council had as its special guest I. Willis Cole, Editor of the Leader who was recently appointed one of the nine members of the Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration for Kentucky and Charles W. Anderson Jr., Attorney and Representative elect to the Kentucky State Legislature. Before introducing the guests the president of the Council, Dr. Orville L. Ballard asked J. A. Thomas, executive secretary of the Urban League to make his report on matters dealing with the participation of the Negro in the Social Security and other Federal Government projects. Following the interesting report of Mr. Thomas the Council with a representative number of its members present was served to a special dinner. Dr. Ballard then introduced Mr. Cole, the one colored member of the Advisory Committee which passes on all N. Y. A. applications, prospects, etc. in the State of Kentucky. Mr. Cole expressed his appreciation to the Council, and pledged his cooperation in its program. He said that the appointment from Washington came as a big surprise to him, but that he accepted it because of his deep interest in the youth. He said that at the first meeting of the Advisory Committee he got the impression that the program of the N. Y. A. in Kentucky would be promoted without prejudice, and for the good of all. He said that at all times he would be looking out for the best to be done in carrying out the National Youth Administration program and for that which is fair and just for the group with which he is identified. He invited suggestions fro m members of the Council and asked their cooperation. Then the president introduced Mr. Ander- (Continued on page 4)
HOLD MURDERER WITHOUT BOND John Hemphill, 75, is being held without bond in the County Jail on a charge of first degree murder. Hemphill became enraged and instantly killed Miss Sophia Lancaster [19?] of 843 Seventh Street, November 2, a sister of Miss Edna Lancaster 22, with whom it is said the seventy-five year old man kept company when he called at the home for Edna and was told that she was out, Mrs. Sara Lancaster, mother of the girl was wounded in the arm, and it is said that Hemphill threatened to kill everybody in the house. The coroner's jury said that the murder was one of the most cold blooded in local crime history.
MINISTERS CHALLENGE NEGRO INSTITUTIONS - Educators Ape Third Rate Whites, Says Rev. Henderson; Baptists Pass Watson Resolution - By William H. Ferris This is the age in which the fundamentals of our boasted civilization are being critically analyzed. It is the age of innovations and experiments. And some of the innovations and experiments, in the terse and trenchant words of the late Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, are likely "to turn out badly." One of the experiments is that human society can survive without the buttress of religion, without the background of belief in an omnipresent God. The colleges and universities of the land which a generation [illegible] when Royce, James, Everett and Palmer taught philosophy at Harvard, Ladd at Yale, Borden in Boston University and Howison in the University of California gave the students an idealistic philosophy of life, are now stomm centers of agnosticism and scepticism. Rev. George F. Mosby of Lexington set his lance in rest and charged against the drift towards a crash and sordid materialism, when he addressed the Inter-Fraternal Council at the Y. W. C. A. last month. Last Sunday morning Rev. C. J. Henderson, pastor of Broadway A. M. E. Zion Temple, in a sermon in scintillating brilliancy said, "I will tell you what is the trouble with our race today. It is unfortunate that our first crop of educators left God out. They ape third rate white writers instead of going back to God. Their so-called freedom of thought is in reality intellectual slavery. Instead of being monkeys they should find God for themselves." Baptist Ministers Take Stand But it was reserved for the (Continued on page 5)
LILIENTHAL TO SPEAK HERE ON TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY David E. Lillienthal, director and general counsel of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will speak in the Memorial Auditorium in Louisville on Monday night November 25th, [Mayor?] Miller announces through the Leader. A native of Morton, Illinois, where he was born in 1899, Mr. Lilienthal [attended?] De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, and Harvard Law School, being graduated from the latter in [1923?]. He began his law practice in Chicago in association with Donald R. Richberg, who was at that time general counsel for the Railroad Brotherhoods. In [1926?], Mr. Lilienthal established his own office in Chicago, where he practiced until February, 1931. During this time he was special counsel for the City of Chicago in the famous [base?] phone rate controversy which [ultimately?] resulted in the United States Supreme Court ordering a refund of $20,000,000 overcharge to telephone subscribers. When Philip La Follette, younger brother of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., became governor of Wisconsin in 1931, he invited Mr. Lilienthal to reorganize the then Railroad Commission of that state. Mr. Lilienthal accepted, gave up his Chicago office and moved to Madison. As state public utilities commis- (Continued on page 5)
SELECT NEW SITE FOR SIMMONS The extended session of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists met Tuesday November 12 at Zion Baptist Church of which Rev. Wm. Crawford is pastor. Rev. Wm. H. Ballew presided and Geo. W. Hampton served as secretary. The purpose of the session was to select a new site for Simmons University, Dr. M. B. Lanier, president, and they decided on the Orphan Home site at 18th and Dumnisnil at a cost of $8,500. The convention also went on record as endorsing the program of the moderator which included aid for the Old Folk's Home, and aged colored ministers.
WOMAN WELL KNOWN OVER STATE, DIES IN MT. STERLING Mt. Sterling, Ky., Nov. 21--Mrs. Priscilla Hall, widow of Rev. Moses Hall, after a short illness, passed away here Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8:30 p. m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Burbridge, 74 E. High St. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. M. V. Allen, pastor of Keas Tabernacle C. M. E. Church, assisted by Rev. G. C. Letton, pastor of High St. Christian Church. She leaves six childre, W. E. Hall, contractor, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. J. S. Estill, Kentucky State Industrial College, Frankfort; Mrs. Elizabeth Burbridge, Mt. Sterling; E. T. Hall, J. Wesley Hall, mail carrier and James Wallace Hall, Gibraltar Insurance agent, all of Indianapolis, Indiana. She also leaves a son-in-law T. A. Mason, mail carrier, Louisville; one granddaughter, Mrs. Mae Grubbs Roberts; a great granddaughter, Miss Zoearline Roberts; eight grandsons, Chas. W. and Sylvester Daniel, William, Tharvalo, Thomas A., Jerome, Elijah and Eugene Grubbs, all of Indianapolis and a great grandson, Wilbur Grubbs, Mt. Sterling. Mrs. Hall was reared in the family of the late Honorable Thomas Turner, who had a large family of boys and only one girl, Miss Mary Turner, at the time she went to live with them. Miss Mary E. Turner and her younger sister, Miss Emily Turner, now (Continued on page 8)
LINWOOD DIXON IS FOUND DEAD Linwood Dixon, well known citizen and for many year an employee of [the?] Louisville Post Office was [found?] dead at his home 513 [South 2nd?] Street Monday afternoon. His body was found on the floor of his home by Charles Bushorg, retired letter carrier, a friend who wishing a call on Mr. Dixon looked through the window and saw his body on the floor when no one answered the doorbell. Other persons who live in the home were away. The police called opened the door and found the body on the floor of the hallway. The County coroner said that a cerebral hemorrhage caused the death. The body was given in charge of the J. B. Cooper Funeral Home awaiting a message from two brothers who survive him. Mr. Dixon was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. He for several years was active in the church and social life of the city.
Speculation Rife; Many Express Regret At Action
Educators Ape Third Rate Whites, Says Rev. Henderson; Baptists Pass Watson Resolution
WOMAN WEll KNOWN OVER STATE, DIES IN MT. STERLING